Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [art] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The vote , by 298 to 125 , defied the wishes of both the Bush administration and the Democratic and Republican leadership in both houses of Congress .
2 The project requires a flexible approach , demanding not only an analysis of the law but an economic and business approach to the nature of the small business and an understanding of small business computer systems .
3 The work in protecting Britain 's hop crop is part of the research programme of Horticulture Research International , a recently privatised group of scientists which still has support from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural and Food Research Council .
4 The National Trust is presently negotiating to buy the land from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) which runs a BBC World Service relay station sited on the ness .
5 The civil service is organised into three groups of staff — the General Category , the Science Category and the Professional and Technology Category .
6 But it needs also to engage with those theories which deconstruct the distinction between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ , which recognise the power of desire and fantasy and the problems of supposing any ‘ original ’ unity in the self , while at the same time preserving its concern with lived experience and the practical and material struggles of women to achieve more autonomy and control over their lives .
7 In the meantime , Henley had become a successful club recognised everywhere as one of the friendliest — where a chap can be assured of a game at weekends by simply turning up looking for one ; a Club with a pretty , well kept , interesting course ; a 19th hole where there is good refreshment and some comfortable chairs ; an excellent Professional 's shop and a social and golfing calendar second to none and the envy of most .
8 The Top-To-Toe day is particularly good value for money , offering the use of the sauna and sports facilities , a Swedish body massage , dance exercise class , G5 Vibro massage and a facial and manicure or pedicure .
9 The float is a bodied peacock waggler , nine inches long , with an all-black body and a white and dayglo orange tip .
10 For instance , Gellner 's attack on analytic philosophy from an anthropological perspective ; the exposure of eugenics in 1930s psychology ; the connections between certain kinds of research in chemistry and the agricultural and food industries ; the models of human motivation — often little more than employee manipulation to be found in management studies ; Illich 's critique of medicine ; and the underlying interest in control over the natural environment within the physical sciences .
11 It may be a jacket or a top and skirt , but I 'm sure you know the one I mean !
12 However the workers ties to the countryside remained strong due to the seasonal nature of factory work , the close of factories to the countryside and the legal and family ties of the workers to the peasant commune .
13 At North-West College of Technology the Mechanical Engineering and the Electronic and Computing Technology streams are available in full .
14 Despite raising a skull and crossbones on one company flagpole and the black and green of anarchy and ecology on the other the demonstrators were from many different groups .
15 I am pleased to say that discussions with the bus company and the local and county councils are progressing well . ’
16 In early January the Prime Minister and the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary ( Douglas Hurd ) had each visited the Gulf and surrounding areas : Major on Jan. 6-9 to meet members of the British armed forces and to hold discussions with the Amir of Kuwait , King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and Mubarak , and Hurd on Jan. 10-14 for talks in Bahrain , Qatar , the United Arab Emirates , Jordan and Turkey .
17 The Jacobite army , thanks to the numerous absentees who had gone foraging , numbered no more than 5000 , arranged in two ranks , with most of the Highlanders in front and the Irish and French in the rear .
18 Whether attitudes towards BSL can be altered or not , those who come into work with deaf people will have to approach the task of learning BSL and it may be that the weight of sign learning must rely on motivation to the task and the cognitive and age factors .
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